Gura Humorului Monastery

Humor Monastery (sometimes called the Humor Monastery) is an Orthodox monastery in Romania, built in 1530 in the village of Humorului Monastery in the homonymous village (currently in Suceava County) by the great logger Toader Bubuiog. The church of the monastery has the patrons of the Assumption of the Virgin (celebrated each year on August 15) and the Holy Martyr George (celebrated on April 23).

The Humorului Monastery was included on the List of Historical Monuments in Suceava County in 2015 at position 292, with classification code SV-II-a-A-05570. [1] The monastery ensemble consists of four objectives:

The church "Assumption of the Virgin" and "St. Gheorghe "- built in 1530 and having the code SV-II-m-A-05570.01;
The ruins of monastic houses - dating from the sec. XVI-XVIII and having the code SV-II-m-A-05570.02;
The bell tower - dating from the sec. XIX and having the code SV-II-m-A-05570.03 and
Tower of Vasile Lupu - built in 1641 and code SV-II-m-A-05570.04.
In 1993, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) included the "Assumption of the Virgin" Church and "St. Gheorghe "of Humor Monastery, together with seven other churches in northern Moldavia (Arbore, Patrauti, Moldovita, Probota, St. John the New in Suceava, Sucevita and Voronet), on the list of the world cultural heritage, Moldova. [2]![]According to the teachings of the elders, at the beginning of the fifteenth century, during the reign of Alexandru cel Bun (1400-1432), "Ivan the jubilee at Humor" erected a stone church on the shore of a brook, near its confluence with Humor. There is a hermitage of monks who previously had a wooden church. During the fifteenth century, a monastic settlement known as the Humor Monastery was developed around the new church. 3![]On April 13, 1415, Prince Alexandru cel Bun (1400-1432) gave "the monastery of Ivan vornic (...) that is to Humor" the land of Pârteşteni which included Soloneţul (the present village Pârteştii de Sus), meaning " a village at the mouth of Solonţ, where were Tatomir and Pârtea ", and Pârteştii de Jos, meaning" Dionis seliştea ".( rulers of the fifteenth century endowed the monastery with precious objects and manuscripts. Among the manuscripts, the Humor Tetraevangheliar, given to the Humor Monastery in 1473 by Stephen the Great, is still preserved today. This manuscript states that Stephen the Great "gave a Tetraevanghel with the hand of Nicodemus the hierodeacon." On one of the tabs of this book of worship is a miniature of a rare beauty that depicts the Mother of God with the baby Jesus. At the bottom of the miniature was Stefan cel Mare, kneeling, giving the Virgin Mary the Tetraevangheliar. This is one of the first secular portraits in Moldova( tetraevanghel was discovered in 1881 by the bishop scholar Melchisedec Ştefănescu who came across the Tetraevangheliar from the Humor Monastery in 1473. At present, this manuscript is kept in the Museum of the Putna Monastery. On November 13, 1881, the bishop expressed his opinion that the miniature of the Tetraevangheliar of Humor was "the true and authentic portrait of the great Stephen." [6] At first, this hypothesis was challenged by members of the Romanian Academy, one of the main contestants being Bogdan Petriceicu HasdeuIn the early decades of the sixteenth century, the church built by Ivan the Wharf collapsed for unknown causes. [3] The ruins of the ancient monastery can still be seen today, about 500 m from the current church.The ruins of the Old Humor Church were included on the List of Historical Monuments in Suceava County in 2015 under heading 291, with classification code SV-II-m-A-05569. [1] On this list it is stated that the ruins are about 100 m southwest of the present premises.![]()